Unique games conjecture
Subject in Mathematics
Unique games conjecture has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Lex Fridman Podcast. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Ankur MoitraMIT mathematician and theoretical computer scientist, visiting the Institute for Advanced Study
Moitra admits he had at times doubted the unique games conjecture because its consequences seemed too strong.
“I did find myself on the side of the doubters because unique games just sounded too nice to be true”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #503 – AI Crisis in Math: Navier-Stokes, Riemann Hypothesis & Complexity Theory (Oct 26, 2026) · Listen from 2:19:02
Podcasts
- Lex Fridman Podcast · 1 episode
Episodes
#503 – AI Crisis in Math: Navier-Stokes, Riemann Hypothesis & Complexity TheoryLex Fridman Podcast · Oct 26, 2026 · 3 h 43 min
Lex Fridman and mathematicians Alex Kontorovich, Ankur Moitra and Steven Brunton discuss AI's claimed proofs of quasi-Riemann, Navier-Stokes, unique games and what it means for mathematics.